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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 15:59:07 GMT -5
You, sah, are no nerd!!!  I know 12 years worth of bullies with whom I went to public school who beg to differ You went to public school? |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 15:26:10 GMT -5
The Liberator from Blake's 7 is one of the best spaceship designs of all time IMHO. It's right up there with the USS Enterprise and Millennium Falcon, as far as I'm concerned. I used to have a die-cast metal toy if it from Corgi as a kid that I absolutely loved.  I still have that toy. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 11:28:15 GMT -5
I am frankly somewhat outraged that they had the nerve to steal the name "Liberator". The only ship worthy of that name was this one:  I apologize for my ignorance, but what is that from? That is the Liberator, the ship of spacefaring revolutionary Roj Blake and his crew in the cult BBC TV series Blake's 7 (1978-1981). |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 11:10:00 GMT -5
The name of the ship and the story is changed from "Liberator" to "Phoenix" so that the story can be packaged with the "Phoenix" video game. There's a passable resemblance between the action in the story and the gameplay of "Phoenix,"  
I am frankly somewhat outraged that they had the nerve to steal the name "Liberator". The only ship worthy of that name was this one: |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 10:53:33 GMT -5
I always thought John Byrne was overrated. Nothing he's done - that I have read - stood out as being anything special. (Sorry!) I liked his stuff in the seventies and early eighties, and I think his Fantastic Four was probably the best run since Stan and Jack's (and has not really been bettered since) but he started to go downhill after moving to DC and I haven't really liked anything he's done since Superman. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 12, 2017 10:50:39 GMT -5
when he is good, he's VERY good. when he's not good?. . everything looks exactly the same, and the coloring gets very very muddy. but always will love his re-designed version of Scarlet Witch  I don't think the Alexis Colby look really worked for Wanda, myself... |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 11, 2017 10:17:26 GMT -5
I really liked Atari Force. I was always rather disappointed it didn't last longer. Looking forward to this.  |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 9, 2017 4:43:31 GMT -5
Wow. Umm...I've fairly sure I've never actually heard of Robert Osborne. But I'm glad someone seems to have really appreciated him, whoever he was.
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 12:41:13 GMT -5
I'd always assumed 2000 AD had the longest print run. This is darn impressive! 2000 AD may have just passed its 2000th edition and its 40th birthday, but it's not even the second longest running British comic. The Beano, another DC Thomson publication, was launched on 30th July 1938, and is currently up to 3, 877 issues (it's been a weekly for most of its existence, except during WWII when paper rationing forced it to bi-weekly publication). Its sister title, the Dandy, ran from December 1937 to 4th December 2012, when the last issue was published on its 75th anniversary. At that time, Dandy was the third longest running comic in the world after Detective Comics (March 1937) and Il Giornalino (1st October 1924). Beano ranks directly after Action Comics in the number five slot . |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 9:59:46 GMT -5
Britain's long running war comic, Commando, has been published by DC Thomson Ltd of Dundee since July 1961, celebrated its 5000th issue this week. That's five thousand 68 page issues, with eight new issues published per month. For those unfamiliar with the tite, it's a digest sized comic with just two large panels per page, and has been telling pretty much the same kind of traditional war stories for over 55 years. These days, four out of every eight issus are reprints, but it's still one hell of an achievement, I think...
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 5:41:39 GMT -5
A question for our British brethren: is this true??? If so, I think it qualifies as madness. The kind of madness that makes the term "liberal" a foul one in certain circles (and with good reason). Sounds about right. Thing is, I have a couple of friends much younger than me who demonstrate exactly the revisionist attitude mentioned in the video; I've made the mistake of showing them vintage sitcoms which I loved in the 1970s, and they've sat there in affronted silence before declaring them to be imperialist, racist, sexist, homophobic and just generally foul beyond words and been amazed that such things were allowed and horrified that we weren't offended by them. Being offended, mostly on behalf of other people, is a national pasttime here, these days. |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 4:02:31 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 8, 2017 3:42:21 GMT -5
I loved Infinity Inc back in the eighties. Why don't they write books like that anymore? Better yet, why don't they just get Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway to do a continuation, picking up from the last issue and ignoring everything since, set in its on little bubble universe. Infinity Inc '88, kind of like Claremont's X-Men '92, but better. They could start by having the team rescue th classic JSA from Limbo...  |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 7, 2017 17:17:27 GMT -5
Condition doesn't matter that much to me anymore. Of course, I'd prefer something in near mint condition, but al I'm really interested in these days is reading copies. As long as there are no missing pages or large stains, I'm happy. What about small but suspicious and unidentifiable stains? |
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Post by tingramretro on Mar 7, 2017 14:10:29 GMT -5
Yes, but...you no longer have the book, which you said you'd been looking for...I'm confused... I weighed the utility of owning the book versus having an additional $70, on top of my original $100, and determined that I valued the additional money more than the book. I...see. OK. I suppose that makes sense... I wouldn't part with my CB Omnibus for all the tea in China, though. It's one of my most treasured possessions. |
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